AWS Author?

**incka** · 04-04-2004, 07:04 AM

What is the thing for Author, I can't get any Authors to display using:

<b>Written by:</b> <? echo $items[0]['Author']; ?>

**GCT13** · 04-04-2004, 08:34 AM

If you're using something similar to my tutorial, you would set the variable as an array (because there could be more than I author)-

PHP Code:


elseif($d_ar[$j]['tag'] == 'Author')

  {$Author[] = $d_ar[$j]['value'];}

And then display the authors as such-

PHP Code:


foreach($Author as $auth){

    echo $auth. ' ';

}

**incka** · 04-04-2004, 08:49 AM

I have absolutly no idea how to implement what you just said.

This is my code:

PHP Code:


<?php



require_once('/home/nichetim/public_html/jewelrystore/jpcache/jpcache.php');



// include class

include("nusoap.php");



// create a instance of the SOAP client object

$soapclient = new

soapclient("http://soap.amazon.com/schemas2/AmazonWebServices.wsdl",

true);



// uncomment the next line to see debug messages

// $soapclient->debug_flag = 1;



$var_array = explode("/",$REQUEST_URI);



$var = $var_array[2];

$asin = $var;



// create a proxy so that WSDL methods can be accessed directly

$proxy = $soapclient->getProxy();



// set up an array containing input parameters to be

// passed to the remote procedure

$params = array(

            'asin'        => $asin,

            'tag'         => 'games2go-20',

            'type'        => 'heavy',

            'devtag'      => 'D2B58IDSY7XE6F'

);



// invoke the method 

$result = $proxy->ASINSearchRequest($params);

$items = $result['Details'];

?>

<title>Book Reviews - <? echo $items[0]['ProductName']; ?></title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<style type="text/css">

<!--

body {

    margin-left: 0px;

    margin-top: 0px;

    margin-right: 0px;

    margin-bottom: 0px;

}

.style1 {

    font-family: Tahoma;

    font-size: xx-small;

}

.style2 {

    font-family: Tahoma;

    font-size: xx-small;

    font-weight: bold;

    color: #947d36;

}

.style3 {font-size: xx-small; color: #947d36; font-family: Tahoma;}

.style4 {color: #5a4916}

.style5 {font-family: Tahoma; font-size: xx-small; color: #5a4916; }

.style6 {

    color: #FF6600;

    font-weight: bold;

}

.menu {

    text-decoration: none; 

    color: #947d36; 

    font-family: "Verdana"; 

    font-size: xx-small;

    font-weight: bold;

    width: 160px;

    position: static;

    padding-left: 2px;

    display: block;

}

a.menu:hover {

    text-decoration: none; 

    color: #947d36; 

    font-family: "Verdana"; 

    font-size: xx-small;

    font-weight: bold;

    background-color: #BFB69D;

    width: 160px;

    position: static;

    padding-left: 2px;

}

-->

</style>

</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#FF6600" vlink="#FF6600" alink="#FF6600">

<form action="http://www.book-reviews.ws/search.php" method="get">

  <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

    <tr> 

      <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

          <tr> 

                  <td width="239"><table width="239"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

                      <tr> 

                        <td width="69"><img src="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/index_13.gif" width="69" height="25"></td>

                        <td background="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/index_14.gif"><div align="center"> 

                            <input type="text" size="20" name="q">

                          </div></td>

                        <td width="42"><input type="image" src="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/index_15.gif" width="42" height="25" border="0"></td>

                      </tr>

                    </table></td>

                  <td><table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

                      <tr> 

                        <td background="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/index_16.gif"><img src="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="16"></td>

                      </tr>

                      <tr> 

                        <td><table width="379" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

                            <tr> 

                              <td width="345" background="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/spacer.gif" bgcolor="white"><img src="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/spacer.gif" width="379" height="9"></td>

                            </tr>

                          </table></td>

                      </tr>

                    </table></td>

                  <td height="25" background="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/bg_stretch.gif"><img src="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/spacer.gif" width="95" height="25"></td>

                </tr>

              </table></td>

          </tr>

          <tr> 

            <td><table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

                <tr> 

                  <td width="187"><img src="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/title_into.gif" width="187" height="23" alt="Book Reviews Categories" /></td>

                  <td valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

                      <tr> 

                        <td bgcolor="white"></td>

                        <td width="39"></td>

                      </tr>

                    </table></td>

                  <td width="152" bgcolor="BFB69D"><img src="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/title_bestseller.gif" width="90" height="17"></td>

                </tr>

              </table></td>

          </tr>

          <tr> 

            <td><table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

                <tr> 

                  <td width="171" valign="top"><table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

                      <tr> 

                        <td><img src="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/side_curve.gif" width="171" height="10"></td>

                      </tr>

                      <tr> 

                        <td valign="top" background="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/side_bg.gif"><table width="93%"  border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">

                            <tr> 

                              <td height="100%">



<?php include("left.inc"); ?>



                                <p class="style2"></p>

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />



</td>

                            </tr>

                          </table></td>

                      </tr>



                    </table></td>

                  <td valign="top"><table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

                      <tr> 

                        <td></td>

                      </tr>

                      <tr> 

                        <td><table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

                            <tr> 

                              <td width="22" background="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/content_side_bgleft.gif">&nbsp;</td>

                              <td><table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

                                  <tr> 

                                    <td><center><font class="style2 style4"><a href="http://www.book-reviews.ws" title="Book Reviews" style="text-decoration:none;" class="style2 style4"><h1>Book Reviews</h1></a></font></center><strong class="style2 style4"><font size="2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><? echo

$items[0]['ProductName']; ?> </font></strong></td>

                                  </tr>

                                  <tr> 

                                    <td height="16"><div align="left"><img src="http://www.book-reviews.ws/images/separator.gif" width="398" height="12"></div></td>

                                  </tr>

                                  <tr> 

                                    <td class="style5"><font size="1">

</form>







<table>

<tr>

<td width="160"><div align="center">

<img border=0 bordercolor=#336699 src="

<? echo

$items[0]['ImageUrlMedium']; ?>

"></div></td>

<td>

<table width=65% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>

<tr>

<td width=60%>

<b>Book:</b> <? echo

$items[0]['ProductName']; ?><br>

<b>Written by:</b> <? echo

$items[0]['Author']; ?>



</td>

</tr><tr>

<td width="60%">

<b>Publisher:</b> <? echo $items[0]['Manufacturer']; ?><br>

<? if (count($items[0]['Reviews']['AvgCustomerRating']) != 0) { ?>

<b>Average Customer Rating:</b> <? echo $items[0]['Reviews']['AvgCustomerRating']; ?> / 5

<? }

else {

echo "<b>Average Rating:</b> No Rating Available";

} ?>

<br>

<form method="POST" action="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/dt/assoc/handle-buy-box=<? echo $asin; ?>">

<input type="hidden" name="asin.<? echo $asin; ?>" value="1">

<input type="hidden" name="tag-value" value="games2go-20"> 

<input type="hidden" name="tag_value" value="games2go-20">

<input type="hidden" name="dev-tag-value" value="D6Y8R22P5D1FJ">

<input type="submit" name="submit.add-to-cart" value="Buy From Amazon.com">

</form> 

</tr>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

<br>

<table width=95% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>

<tr><td class="productinfo" width="80%"> <?

if (count($items[0]['Reviews']['CustomerReviews']) != 0) {

foreach($items[0]['Reviews']['CustomerReviews'] as $r)

    {



?>



    <b><? echo $r['Summary']; ?>

    <br>Rating: <i>

    <? echo $r['Rating']; ?> / 5

<br></i></b>

    <? echo $r['Comment']; ?>

    <hr color=#336699 size=0 align="center"><br><br>

<?

}

}

else {

echo "No reviews currently available.";

}

?>

</td>

</tr>

</table>



</font></td>

**GCT13** · 04-04-2004, 09:14 AM

Try this-

PHP Code:


if (count($items[0]['Authors']) != 0){

  foreach($items[0]['Authors'] as $auth){

    echo $auth['Author']. ' ';

  }

}

Understand how I derived this? It helps to look at the XML to see how the tags are nested. What you have here is 1 or more <Author> tags nested within the <Authors> tag. It's similar to how you display the customer reviews.

**incka** · 04-04-2004, 09:15 AM

I'm not sure how to implement it, thats my problem...

**incka** · 04-04-2004, 10:02 AM

I can't get it to work...

**GCT13** · 04-04-2004, 10:08 AM

I edited the code, found an error. Try it now.

**incka** · 04-04-2004, 10:12 AM

I'm getting this:

Written by:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/home/nichetim/public_html/bookreviews/book-reviews on line 261

**GCT13** · 04-04-2004, 10:14 AM

Okay, found another error and edited the post. Please try again...

**incka** · 04-04-2004, 10:17 AM

http://www.book-reviews.ws/book-reviews/0060977337

Look, it's is displaying the initial now...

**incka** · 04-04-2004, 10:33 AM

Just a time check

**GCT13** · 04-04-2004, 10:16 PM

Kinda strange how it's displaying only the very first character of the author. Hmmm. (It's tricky using this AWS technique without being able to test it myselft so please bear with me.) Try this-

PHP Code:


if (count($items[0]['Authors']['Author']) != 0){ 

  echo '<strong>Written by:</strong> ';

  foreach($items[0]['Authors']['Author'] as $auth){ 

    echo $auth. ' '; 

  } 

}

**incka** · 04-05-2004, 02:17 AM

Now it doesn't display anything

Do I need to put something in the head part of the document?

**GCT13** · 04-06-2004, 07:38 AM

Try this-

PHP Code:


<?php

echo 'Written by: ' .$items[0]['Authors']['Author']. '<br /><br />'; 

?>

**incka** · 04-06-2004, 09:01 AM

Not working

Do you have MSN? I can give you FTP account and a reward (.com or .info or hosting on my server) if you get it fixed...

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